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Walter Lippmann
Collected in this massive 500+ page omnibus editions are Walter Lippman's four most important books. These four books are seminal texts in the fields of media studies political science and…
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Public Opinion exposes how media can shape public perception and how that perception changes society. It is a critical assessment of functional democratic government especially of the irrational and often…
In Liberty and the News Walter Lippmann offers us a stern warning about the importance of reliable news to the survival of a healthy democracy. He railed against bad journalism…
The Phantom Public was Lippman's most towering achievement influencing political thought for decades to come. In it Lippman posits that the public exists merely as an illusion myth and inevitably…
Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann is a seminal work exploring the complexities of mass perception and its impact on democracy. Written in 1922, Lippmann delves into the challenges of informed…
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In his groundbreaking work Public Opinion (1922), Walter Lippmann, an eminent American writer and political commentator, delves into the intricate dynamics of democracy, shedding light on the pivotal role of…
A Preface to Politics, a classical book, was published more than a century ago and has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never…
Prof Mark Thomas Edwards
Walter Lippmann was arguably the most respected political journalist of last century, one of liberalism's strongest proponents and harshest critics. This biography considers the role of religion in his life…
Ronald Steel
Walter Lippmann has been hailed as the greatest journalist of his age. For more than 60 years he exerted an unprecedented influence on American public opinion through his writing. This…
Public Opinion exposes how media can shape public perception and how that perception changes society. Walter Lippmann is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner and visionary.
Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) has been hailed as the greatest journalist of his age. For more than sixty years he exerted unprecedented influence on American public opinion through his writing, especially…
Craufurd D. Goodwin
Unemployment, monetary and fiscal policy, and the merits and drawbacks of free markets were a few of the issues the journalist and public philosopher Walter Lippmann explained to the public…
Anwar Hussain Syed
A journalist and a political philosopher of international repute, Walter Lippman was the author of more than twenty books, scores of essays, and countless newspaper editorials, articles, and columns. This…
Walter Lippmann's Philosophy of International Politics by Anwar Hussain Syed is a comprehensive analysis of the political philosophy of Walter Lippmann, a prominent American journalist and political commentator. The book…
Benjamin F. Wright
This study is the first book devoted to an exposition and analysis of Lippmann’s nine books of political philosophy.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Originally published in 1991, this is a treatise on the nature of human information and communication. Lippmann integrates the historical, psychological and philosophical literature of his day, and in every…
The most incisive comment on politics to-day is indifference. When men and women begin to feel that elections and legislatures do not matter very much that politics is a rather…
Written by one of the most influential men of his time and one of the greatest journalists in history, this seminal work of political science presents an incisive examination of…
In an era disgusted with politicians and the various instruments of direct democracy, Walter Lippmann’s The Phantom Public remains as relevant as ever
Liberty and the News is a key transitional work in the corpus of Lippmann’s writings. For it is here that he proposes that public opinion is largely a response not…
Walter Lippmann wrote his Public Opinion at a time when something like the ‘mass media’ was coming into existence. Prior to the age of electronic communication, the only mechanism for…
Drift and Mastery-An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest, originally published in 1914, was Walter Lippmann’s second book and established him as a major public intellectual within the progressive movement.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
A penetrative study of democratic theory and the role of citizens in a democracy, this classic by a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner offers a prescient view of the media’s function in…
